Teachers' beliefs about technology integration in early childhood education: A meta-ethnographical synthesis of qualitative research

P Mertala - Computers in Human Behavior, 2019 - Elsevier
There is a body of evidence suggesting that instead of concentrating only on teaching and
learning (the education task), teachers believe that their tasks are to care for their students …

Young children's online learning during COVID-19 pandemic: Chinese parents' beliefs and attitudes

C Dong, S Cao, H Li - Children and youth services review, 2020 - Elsevier
Online learning has been widely promoted to replace traditional face-to-face learning during
the COVID-19 pandemic to maintain young children's learning and play at home. This study …

Paradoxes of participation in the digitalization of education: A narrative account

P Mertala - Learning, Media and Technology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The language used around the digitalization of education tends to be inherently political,
value-laden, and deterministic. This position paper scrutinizes this so-called 'Ed-Tech …

Early childhood pre-service teachers' attitudes towards digital technologies and their relation to digital competence

O Merjovaara, K Eklund, T Nousiainen… - Education and …, 2024 - Springer
This study examines early childhood pre-service teachers' attitudes towards digital
technologies and their relations to their self-perceived digital competence. Attitudes towards …

Teachers in the lifelong learning process: examples of digital literacy

K Potyrała, Ł Tomczyk - Journal of Education for Teaching, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The text aims at measuring digital literacy among teachers of the third stage of education in
Poland (lower secondary schools). The study was commissioned by the Ministry of National …

Young children's conceptions of computers, code, and the Internet

P Mertala - International journal of child-computer interaction, 2019 - Elsevier
Today, children are growing up surrounded by versatile digital technologies [1],[2], and at an
early age, children start to form conceptions of how these technologies work and their basic …

Digital technologies in early childhood education–a frame analysis of preservice teachers' perceptions

P Mertala - Early Child Development and Care, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Research on early childhood teachers' perceptions of technology integration has been
criticized for not paying enough attention to the unique pedagogical characteristics of early …

Early childhood educators' provision of remote learning during COVID-19

EA Steed, N Leech, N Phan, E Benzel - Early Childhood Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study utilized a nationally distributed survey to explore early childhood teachers'
experience of providing remote learning to young children and their families during the early …

Writing and iPads in the early years: Perspectives from within the classroom

J Dunn, T Sweeney - British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Writing is a complex and effortful activity and recent surveys indicate that fewer children are
enjoying writing or engaging in writing outside of school. Yet compositional writing is a part …

Use of touchscreen technology by 0–3-year-old children: Parents' practices and perspectives in Norway, Portugal and Japan

M Dardanou, T Unstad, R Brito, P Dias… - Journal of Early …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper discusses findings from online surveys completed by parents of 0–3-year-old
children in Norway, Portugal and Japan concerning their young children's use of …